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Is there any way to create farm plots on constructed tiles, or will these fortresses have to be touching the ground?
Booze doesn't explode, it only lightly boils, softly cascading your opponent in a shrouded scent of fresh dwarven wine.So tragic
It all depends on what your aiming for in a fort. But mining is much quicker. It can lead to having annoying (for me anyway) veins of random metal ruining your otherwise perfectly laid out housing estate though.I find the ore veins pretty >.> (and room value is good too.)
You need 2 military dwarves, THEN you can face off anything.Except for 360-stun-dust FBs. Those ones you need to spike or cave in.
All of them. I like my weapon traps to be a variable swiss army knife of weapons flying at critters.Huh, I had figured that the three attacks would work out better. Good to know about the hammers.
I do tend to use silver spiked balls but I find silver warhammers work a lot better if I want to kill as the spiked balls tend to just wound while the hammer shatters.
Of course, you could switch the farms and stockpiles, or remove the kitchen. More complete designs might also have a..."population control" mechanism, but I'm doing this from memory.By "Population Control" you mean mamga level, yes?
I once tried to capture Antmen, but they all just wandered around happily as though they had [TRAPAVOID], although I couldn't find it in their raws.They might have been friendly rather than enemies. That happens sometimes with the underground animalmen.
It never ceases to amaze me how much people focus on the military. You don't really need more than 1 military dwarf. Your defenses should work without a military. It's really not that hard to do.Less !!Fun!! that way. And if seiges get stuck (as they tend to do), you need to have someone go get rid of them.
Yeah its true, while having well trained and equipped troops is nice, its just marginally better than having waves upon waves of nonskilled dwarves who do not have large families or groups of friends. There is plenty of rock to make coffins from, and the equipment of the fallen can be cycled back into service.
If you're specifically wanting werewolves, harpies and such, I believe that Terrrifying biomes are the way to go.They are really just wolfmen for now. Actual werewolves are promised in the next update (at least the infectious part, maybe not the silver part). [Can you tell I am excited for that update?]
Blunt weapons are rather pointless (pun intended). Anything below full iron armour doesn't warrant specialised can openers, copper spears will do at least as well - and they're somewhat useful against beasts. Since many invaders will have exposed limbs, picks are a decent compromise.I have fount that in 10 v 10 teams of dwarfs, silver warhemmers still to about as well as (and in some tests, slightly better than) addy battle axes in fights between unarmored grandmaster dwarfs.
If you want blunt weapons for flavour reasons, all non-adamantine materials seem about equal in usefulness. There are reproducable differences, but they seem to be both minor and complex (what's best may depend on wielder stats, exact weapon and victim. For example, silver often seemed ahead against armour but behind against unarmoured opponents)
Regarding shields: I don't understand the mechanics behind blocking, but in my tests adamantine shields were better than other metals which were better than wood. I'm not at all sure that copper is particularly desirable.
